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I'm running 2 gtx 560 super clocked in SLI and Im thinking of adding another card just because. Is it better to run the 2 in SLI and have the 3rd stand alone or run all 3 stand alone? Which would benefit more? Just out of curiosity.
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Im running a sabertooth x58, 12 gigs of ddr3, i7 960 quad core, 850 watt psu, 750 gig hdd.
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I dunno what does the bible have to say on this?
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Mastara posted:
I'm running 2 gtx 560 super clocked in SLI and Im thinking of adding another card just because. Is it better to run the 2 in SLI and have the 3rd stand alone or run all 3 stand alone? Which would benefit more? Just out of curiosity.
Step 1: Take the money you would use to buy the 3rd card.
Step 2: Set it on fire.
Step 3: PROFIT! You have now gained more direct benefit from that money than you would running a 3rd GPU. 
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So it doesnt really benefit at all? How about running SLI or 2 stand alone cards?
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How about running SLI or 2 stand alone cards?
SLI only gives you about a 25% performance boost over running a single card. Adding a 3rd card is just silly.
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i see. What I also found funny was that some how my 2 monitors were locked at 60fps only for a while and my graphics card would bottle neck. So when I played wow it would randomly drop my fps like 20fps :/ then I found out that in my nvidia control panel I could create a custom profile and change the fps to whatever I like. I chose 75 which some how is now able to get my game to 100-110 fps. Wondering why though sometimes it still seems choppy though. Everything is OC'ed too. Think I might need to tone it down a bit.
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NuEM posted:
I dunno what does the bible have to say on this?
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SLi / CrossFire is a gimmic unless you are strictly building a machine to benchmark
There's more reasons to sell an old card and get a new one than it is to just buy another old card to SLi it.
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hmm i didn't think 560's could triSLI......maybe it was they can't quad sli
either way....putting a 3rd card yields hardly anything in terms of performance...typically less than 10%....cross that with the cost of a 560 which are probably still in the $180 range and it's pretty silly
sell the two cards you have for $100/ea and add in the $180 u were going to spend and buy a single 570gtx
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i see. What I also found funny was that some how my 2 monitors were locked at 60fps only for a while and my graphics card would bottle neck. So when I played wow it would randomly drop my fps like 20fps :/ then I found out that in my nvidia control panel I could create a custom profile and change the fps to whatever I like. I chose 75 which some how is now able to get my game to 100-110 fps. Wondering why though sometimes it still seems choppy though. Everything is OC'ed too. Think I might need to tone it down a bit.
560's in sli have really bad microstuttering ....its a problem with some cards in sli and is one of the problems making sli not worth the hassle
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i see. What I also found funny was that some how my 2 monitors were locked at 60fps only for a while and my graphics card would bottle neck. So when I played wow it would randomly drop my fps like 20fps :/ then I found out that in my nvidia control panel I could create a custom profile and change the fps to whatever I like.
Sounds like you had vertical sync enabled - where the cards throttle the FPS to whatever your screen refresh rate is.
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